PC Perspective has word that BFG Technologies is exiting the graphics card manufacturing business, saying, "this category is no longer profitable for us, although we will continue to evaluate it going forward." They will continue to manufacture power supplies, Deimos gaming notebooks, and Phobos gaming systems. Word is: "BFG will continue to offer RMA, telephone and email support for qualified BFG Tech graphics card warranty holders, but will no longer be bringing new graphics card products to market." This is sad news for me personally, as my last three graphics cards were from BFG (counting my current card), and I have always found their products and tech support to be top notch. Thanks dakslf via TFTS via PC Perspective.

Ant wrote on May 21, 2010, 14:00:Agreed. Creative is still better than onboard sound. Yeah, drivers and support suck for them.

Again onboard sound gets a bad knock from people who operate on older experiences imho, much like ATI drivers. The worst I can say about it is that in poorly designed motherboards you can sometimes hear buzzing caused by external issues when using the analog outputs. Then again pretty much every decent motherboard I've seen in the past 3+ years has a toslink or coaxial digital out anyways.

If you need DD 5.1+ or want to bitstream PCM or some other crazy scenario then you're probably still better off with a Xonar or to start looking at home theater level soundcards. But that's just my opinion, Creative is good for nothing and I could never endorse their usage.

If people really cared about audio quality they would pipe it out to a receiver or not use a $100 consumer level card anyways. Complaining about on-board quality then likening Creative cards to being somehow "good" quality is hilariously inaccurate.

Games stopped using EAX years ago anyways but Windows 7 handles multiple sound/video drivers just fine now so you can always keep that old card around for the odd usage scenario that requires it.

as have I, had a fan stop working on an old Nvidia card and they replaced it with a newer model.

EVGA did that to me twice (bought a GeForce 7950 GT AGP and then fan died two years later, then got a 8800 GT {PCIe) replacement, but replacement only got one year warranty and died in less than a year and now using another one for now). I wonder if my second card will die within a year too so I can get another one.

I always bought the BFG cards. But seeing as how very few AAA+ titles get released these days (well none imho), there really is no need to be upgrading. When the games were coming, I`d upgrade a vid card everyyear almost. Now you can easilly wait 2 to 4 years between upgrading.

as have I, had a fan stop working on an old Nvidia card and they replaced it with a newer model.

I hate to see them leave but I can understand the lack of profits.

I have seen so many posts with regard to sent my bfg back got a new one 2 generations better!I remember thinking back then Fu^$# how many ppl must be doing this to them and how can they sustain that.....well I guess this is the result.